Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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Page 135
... wanted to gain the ear of titular authority . Weld was not scrupling to go over the head of the Seminary president and report on conditions at Lane directly to the institution's financial supporter , Arthur Tappan ; and so , that spring ...
... wanted to gain the ear of titular authority . Weld was not scrupling to go over the head of the Seminary president and report on conditions at Lane directly to the institution's financial supporter , Arthur Tappan ; and so , that spring ...
Page 224
... wanted was to get home and die . Die I was very sure I should , at any rate , but I suppose I was never less prepared to do so . Harriet left the sanitarium in March , but again visited in the East , and did not reach her home until May ...
... wanted was to get home and die . Die I was very sure I should , at any rate , but I suppose I was never less prepared to do so . Harriet left the sanitarium in March , but again visited in the East , and did not reach her home until May ...
Page 576
... wanted , she turned and spoke to her husband . Calvin's jump bounced his spectacles on his nose . " Goodness , Hattie ! " he exclaimed . " Was that you ? I thought I was having a vision . " As he neared the brink of eternity , Calvin ...
... wanted , she turned and spoke to her husband . Calvin's jump bounced his spectacles on his nose . " Goodness , Hattie ! " he exclaimed . " Was that you ? I thought I was having a vision . " As he neared the brink of eternity , Calvin ...
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